| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Open innovation in SMEs: Trends, motives and management challenges | Technovation | 2009 | 1,515 |
| 2 | Open innovation: State of the art and future perspectives | Technovation | 2011 | 1,301 |
| 3 | The importance of diverse collaborative networks for the novelty of product innovation | Technovation | 2007 | 982 |
| 4 | Relationship between cooperation networks and innovation performance of SMEs | Technovation | 2010 | 772 |
| 5 | How to make product development projects more successful by integrating Kano's model of customer satisfaction into quality function deployment | Technovation | 1998 | 760 |
| 6 | Internal capabilities and external knowledge sources: complements or substitutes for innovative performance? | Technovation | 2004 | 685 |
| 7 | Lessons from innovation empirical studies in the manufacturing sector: A systematic review of the literature from 1993–2003 | Technovation | 2006 | 677 |
| 8 | A system failure framework for innovation policy design | Technovation | 2005 | 557 |
| 9 | Measuring technological change through patents and innovation surveys | Technovation | 1996 | 511 |
| 10 | Eco-innovation and new product development: understanding the influences on market performance | Technovation | 2006 | 508 |
| 11 | Assessing the impact of organizational learning capability on product innovation performance: An empirical test | Technovation | 2008 | 506 |
| 12 | Incubator best practice: A framework | Technovation | 2008 | 490 |
| 13 | Benefits, obstacles, and future of six sigma approach | Technovation | 2006 | 485 |
| 14 | Shopping motivations on Internet: A study based on utilitarian and hedonic value | Technovation | 2007 | 483 |
| 15 | Small firms, R&D, technology and innovation in the UK: a literature review | Technovation | 1998 | 473 |
| 16 | Business incubators and new venture creation: an assessment of incubating models | Technovation | 2005 | 460 |
| 17 | Innovative capability and export performance of Chinese firms | Technovation | 2003 | 458 |
| 18 | Drivers of innovativeness and performance for innovative SMEs in South Korea: Mediation of learning orientation | Technovation | 2010 | 456 |
| 19 | Innovation ecosystems: A critical examination | Technovation | 2016 | 443 |
| 20 | R&D collaboration by SMEs: new opportunities and limitations in the face of globalisation | Technovation | 2004 | 440 |
| 21 | Organizational innovation: The challenge of measuring non-technical innovation in large-scale surveys | Technovation | 2008 | 417 |
| 22 | Action-based entrepreneurship education | Technovation | 2006 | 415 |
| 23 | The Evolution of Business Incubators: Comparing demand and supply of business incubation services across different incubator generations | Technovation | 2012 | 401 |
| 24 | An investigation into the acceptance of online banking in Saudi Arabia | Technovation | 2009 | 393 |
| 25 | What's in it for me? Creating and appropriating value in innovation-related coopetition | Technovation | 2009 | 386 |
| 26 | The role of internationalization in explaining innovation performance | Technovation | 2008 | 385 |
| 27 | Do different types of innovation rely on specific kinds of knowledge interactions? | Technovation | 2009 | 385 |
| 28 | The Open Innovation Journey: How firms dynamically implement the emerging innovation management paradigm | Technovation | 2011 | 379 |
| 29 | Knowledge sharing, knowledge leaking and relative innovation performance: An empirical study | Technovation | 2015 | 375 |
| 30 | R&D, firm size and innovation: an empirical analysis | Technovation | 2005 | 351 |
| 31 | Targeting innovation and implications for capability development | Technovation | 2005 | 344 |
| 32 | A review of the literature on environmental innovation management in SMEs: implications for public policies | Technovation | 2003 | 343 |
| 33 | The impact of open innovation on firm performance: The moderating effects of internal R&D and environmental turbulence | Technovation | 2013 | 343 |
| 34 | Absorptive capacity, technological opportunity, knowledge spillovers, and innovative effort | Technovation | 2005 | 342 |
| 35 | Organisational modes for Open Innovation in the bio-pharmaceutical industry: An exploratory analysis | Technovation | 2011 | 340 |
| 36 | An approach to discovering new technology opportunities: Keyword-based patent map approach | Technovation | 2009 | 333 |
| 37 | Characteristics of innovating users in a consumer goods field | Technovation | 2004 | 330 |
| 38 | Cooperation, competition, and innovative capability: a panel data of European dedicated biotechnology firms | Technovation | 2004 | 330 |
| 39 | Building absorptive capacity to organise inbound open innovation in traditional industries | Technovation | 2011 | 330 |
| 40 | The entrepreneurial university: Examining the underlying academic tensions | Technovation | 2011 | 327 |
| 41 | The influence of scope, depth, and orientation of external technology sources on the innovative performance of Chinese firms | Technovation | 2011 | 325 |
| 42 | Which resources matter the most to firm success? An exploratory study of resource-based theory | Technovation | 2005 | 324 |
| 43 | A review of TRIZ, and its benefits and challenges in practice | Technovation | 2013 | 320 |
| 44 | A proposed model of e-trust for electronic banking | Technovation | 2003 | 319 |
| 45 | Building absorptive capacity to organise inbound open innovation in traditional industries | Technovation | 2010 | 319 |
| 46 | Integration of market pull and technology push in the corporate front end and innovation management—Insights from the German software industry | Technovation | 2009 | 318 |
| 47 | Absorptive capacity, its determinants, and influence on innovation output: Cross-cultural validation of the structural model | Technovation | 2009 | 317 |
| 48 | Influence of government R&D support and inter-firm collaborations on innovation in Korean biotechnology SMEs | Technovation | 2012 | 317 |
| 49 | Technological innovation, energy efficient design and the rebound effect | Technovation | 2007 | 315 |
| 50 | Innovation ecosystems: A conceptual review and a new definition | Technovation | 2020 | 313 |
